With a 24-hour wake on Monday, the Brazilian seaside city of Santos, where sporting legend “king of soccer,” Pele became a byword for soccer prowess during a sparkling club career, began saying farewell to its idol.
At the Vila Belmiro stadium, home of the Santos Football Club, mourners lined up to view Pele’s body in an open casket. The open casket was in the middle of the field. At the age of 82, Pele passed away on Thursday after a battle with colon cancer.
“Pele abandons the nation’s millions of Santos supporters.
Antonio da Paz, a spectator outside the stadium, attended the memorial that started at 10 a.m. He said that he was the man who invented Brazilian soccer.
Gianni Infantino, the president of Brazil, was among the first people to arrive for the service and declared he would request that each nation name a stadium in honor of Pele, the only person to have won the World Cup three times as a player.
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According to Infantino, Pele is forever. “FIFA will undoubtedly give the ‘monarch’ the respect he deserves. We have urged all 211 countries with football organizations to dedicate a stadium to Pele and to observe a minute of silence before every match. Future generations need to be aware of and remember Pele.
king of soccer Pele, real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was born in 1940 in the rural community of Tres Coracoes but spent the majority of his life in Santos.
His body was transported from Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital. This occurred early on Monday. The body arrived in the city of around 430,000 people amid pyrotechnics.
Ze Roberto, a former midfielder for Brazil, and Edinho, Pele’s son, assisted in laying his casket on the ground. This was shown on television.
Numerous organizations, including Neymar, Vinicius Junior, and Real Madrid, delivered floral wreaths.